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NHS to fund Ashya King's treatment in Czech Republic

The NHS is to pay for five-year-old brain tumour patient Ashya King's proton beam therapy treatment in the Czech Republic.

His parents Brett and Naghemeh King sparked an international police hunt after they took their son out of Southampton General Hospital and travelled to Prague for the treatment which was not available for him on the NHS.

Parents take boy with brain tumour to France

Police say the family took a ferry from Portsmouth to Cherbourg. Credit: Google Maps

A family who took a boy with a brain tumour from hospital yesterday arrived in France at 8pm local time last night, police said.

Hampshire Constabulary said:

We are working with our counterparts in France to activate their emergency child rescue alert procedures to locate the family as soon as possible.
If we do not locate Ashya today there are serious concerns for his life. He is receiving constant medical care within the UK due to recent surgery and ongoing medical issues.
Without this specialist 24-hour care Ashya is at risk of additional health complications which place him at substantial risk."

– Hampshire Constabulary

Police said the family are travelling in a grey-coloured Hyundai I800 Style CRDI, registration KP60 HWK, and they are still believed to be in France.